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The busy I-55 stretch between St. Louis and Springfield had seemed normal on May 1. But then a wall of dirt 200 feet high engulfed the interstate. “All of a sudden it got thick and dark,” remembered Jim Dawson, a 67-year-old who had been driving to make funeral arrangements for his brother. “And boom, it was over.” The 84-vehicle pileup that followed killed eight and injured at least 36 .